From power brokers to priests, crisis-weary Hondurans pushing to resolve dueling presidents

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Catholic Church leaders are weighing in on Honduras’ coup stalemate with a proposal to jump-start negotiations, part of a growing movement by crisis-weary Hondurans to resolve the crisis and end the country’s crippling isolation.

Honduras’ crisis-weary power brokers consider allowing ousted leader to be reinstated

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Business and political leaders who backed the coup overthrowing President Manuel Zelaya now are considering the unthinkable: returning him to office with limited powers.

Honduran security forces enforce emergency decree despite interim government’s vow to lift it

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Soldiers and police enforced an emergency decree suspending civil liberties Wednesday despite promises by the coup-imposed government to lift the measures criticized by its own allies as going too far.

Honduras bans unauthorized meetings, restricts media, allows arrests without warrants

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras’ interim government is cracking down on civil rights in response to ousted President Manuel Zelaya’s calls for rebellion.

Honduras’ interim gov’t takes increasing measures to heep power by suspending civil liberties

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The coup-installed government in Honduras took increasingly desperate measures to hold onto power Monday, suspending civil liberties, silencing dissident broadcasters and facing off with hundreds of protesters in the street.

Ousted Honduran leader says he is encouraged by business leaders’ proposal for reinstating him

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Ousted President Manuel Zelaya said Tuesday he was analyzing a proposal from Honduran business leaders for bringing him back to power and ending the country’s crisis, saying he found the plan encouraging.

Honduran lawmakers threatening to revoke emergency decree; cracks deepen among coup supporters

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Cracks are deepening among supporters of Honduras’ coup-imposed government, with business leaders softening their opposition to reinstating ousted President Manuel Zelaya and lawmakers threatening to revoke an emergency decree limiting civil liberties.

Coup-installed president of Honduras backs down and agrees to restore civil liberties

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The coup-installed president of Honduras backed down Monday from an escalating standoff with protesters and suggested he would restore civil liberties and reopen dissident television and radio stations by the end of the week.

Honduras’ top general implores society to find peaceful solution to deepening crisis

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The general who oversaw the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya implored all sectors of Honduran society to join in resolving the country’s deepening crisis Tuesday, a message that seemed aimed at calming an uproar over a government order suspending civil liberties.

Coup-installed government in Honduras to restore civil liberties after criticism

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The coup-installed government in Honduras is backing off of its increasingly desperate measures to hold onto power.

Deposed Honduran president addresses UN via cell phone; says country ruled by ‘dictatorship’

UNITED NATIONS — Honduras’ ousted president addressed the United Nations General Assembly by cellular phone late Monday from the Brazilian embassy in his country where he is holed up, calling on the world body to guarantee his personal safety and turn back the “dictatorship” that has taken power.

Honduras government reversal on measures reflects nervousness on Zelaya’s return

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras’ interim president promised to restore civil liberties and allow into the country an Organization of American States mediation team, quickly backpedalling from tough measures amid criticism from his own allies that he had gone too far in his fight to stay in power.

Honduras gives Brazil 10 days to resolve standoff at embassy, where Zelaya seeking refuge

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras is giving Brazil 10 days to decide what to do with ousted President Manuel Zelaya, who has been inside the Brazilian Embassy since sneaking back into the country last week.

Top UN official says any attack on Brazilian embassy in Honduras would be ‘disaster’

UNITED NATIONS — An attack by police and soldiers on the Brazilian embassy in Honduras, where that country’s deposed president is holed up, “would be a disaster,” a senior U.N. official said Monday.

Increasingly desperate Honduran leaders vow to restore freedoms; standoff at pro-Zelaya march

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The coup-installed president of Honduras backed down Monday from an escalating standoff with protesters and suggested he would restore civil liberties and reopen dissident television and radio stations by the end of the week.

Honduran protesters, police in standoff as authorities silence media, suspend civil liberties

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The coup-installed government in Honduras took increasingly desperate measures to hold onto power Monday, suspending civil liberties, silencing dissident broadcasters and facing off with hundreds of protesters in the street.

Honduras’ interim government raids media outlets after suspending civil liberties

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras’ coup-installed government has silenced two key dissident broadcasters hours after it suspended civil liberties to prevent an uprising by backers of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

Honduras expels OAS advance team members, gives Brazil ultimatum on Embassy standoff

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras’ interim government on Sunday expelled personnel from the Organization of American States looking to set up a mediation effort and gave Brazil a 10-day ultimatum to decide what to do with ousted President Manuel Zelaya, who is holed up in the Brazilian Embassy.

Honduras restricts civil liberties, issues ultimatum to Brazil; Zelaya calls for mass marches

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Interim government leaders have suspended constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties in a pre-emptive strike against widespread rebellion Monday, three months to the day since they ousted President Manuel Zelaya in a military-backed coup.

Honduras clamps down on civil rights, says it’s to prevent Zelaya’s ‘calls for insurrection’

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras’ interim leaders late Sunday suspended key civil liberties in response to “calls for insurrection” by ousted President Manuel Zelaya, empowering police and soldiers to break up “unauthorized” public meetings, arrest people without warrants and restrict the news media.

Honduras’ interim government silences dissident broadcasters after suspending civil liberties

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras’ coup-installed government silenced two key dissident broadcasters on Monday just hours after it suspended civil liberties to prevent an uprising by backers of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Dozens of soldiers raided the offices of Radio Globo. Officials also shut down Channel 36 television station, leaving it broadcasting only a test pattern.

Pressure on Honduran business community grows as coup enters third month

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Die-hard supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya are increasingly turning their anger toward the country’s wealthy business elite, a small but powerful cadre that largely backs the interim government officials who removed him at gunpoint three months ago.

Honduran interim leader: I won’t meet Zelaya, but he can leave if he gets political asylum

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras’ interim leader says ousted President Manuel Zelaya might be allowed to leave the foreign embassy where he has taken refuge without being arrested if he is granted political asylum outside the country.

Gas shells, noise bombs thrown into Brazilian embassy: Zelaya

TEGUCIGALPA - Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya said Friday gas shells and non-lethal noise bombs were thrown into the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, where he has taken refuge, but Honduras’ de facto government denied that the embassy had been attacked.

Campaiging during crisis, Honduran candidates hope country can vote itself out of coup

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras’ interim leaders are betting the country can vote its way out of a coup, even as presidential candidates struggle to campaign amid nationwide curfews and political turmoil.

UN condemns ‘intimidation’ against Brazilian embassy in Honduras where ousted-pres is hiding

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council on Friday condemned “acts of intimidation” against the Brazilian embassy in Honduras, where that country’s ousted president is holed up, but said nothing about restoring him to power.

Costa Rican president says Honduras to block foreign ministers sent to help end crisis

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Costa Rican President Oscar Arias says Honduras’ coup-installed government is blocking the arrival of foreign ministers sent to help resolve the country’s political standoff.

Ousted Honduran president: 1st talks offer no possibility for resolution of political crisis

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras’ coup-installed government plans to block the arrival of a commission of foreign ministers heading to the country this weekend to help resolve the country’s political standoff, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias said Friday.

Honduran presidential candidates to meet with ousted leader, urge both sides to reach deal

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The four leading presidential candidates in Honduras say they are going to meet with ousted President Manuel Zelaya and are calling on both sides in the country’s protracted political crisis to reach an agreement.

Ousted Honduran president says he’s met with interim gov’t, begun dialogue to resolve crisis

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Thursday he has met with an interim government official and begun dialogue aimed at ending the country’s protracted political crisis.

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